Patrick Low

Patrick is a Fellow of the Asia Global Institute and also works as a Geneva-based consultant on trade and trade-related matters. In 2017, he directed the AGI’s inaugural AsiaGlobal Fellows Program. From 2016 to 2019 he was an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Hong Kong, where he taught policy courses on trade and on climate change to MBA students. He was also the Vice-President for Research at the Fung Global Institute from 2013 to 2015, where most of his work was on the role of services in production and trade. From 1995 to 2013, Patrick Low was with the World Trade Organization Secretariat in Geneva, where he worked for two years on matters relating to trade in services before becoming the Chief Economist of the WTO (1997-2013). In that role he was responsible for overseeing the organization’s research work and statistical services. During this period, he also served briefly as the Chief of Staff to WTO Director-General Mike Moore (1999-2001). From 1990 to 1994, he was an economist in the research complex at the World Bank in Washington DC. Prior to that he was a Visiting Professor at El Colegio de México, Mexico City (1987-1990). From 1980 to 1987, he worked in various capacities for the Secretariat of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). He holds BA and PhD degrees in economics and has written widely on a range of trade policy and related issues.

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